inferno that took 86 lives. the fbi insist cult members started the blaze as part of a suicide pact at the direction of david koresh. >> sean: many accused reno of negligence for signing off on the operation with some calling for her resignation. >> surprise bo be a mild word to say that anyone that would suggest -- that the attorney general should resign because some religious fanatics murdered themselves. >> sean: two atf agents were terminated. attorney general reno kept her job. in the scope of american politics, the fast and furious scandal may bear the most resemblance to watergate. >> what did the president know? when did he know it? >> sean: while watergate began with a small group inside president nixon's reelection campaign it spread through the executive branch up to the president himself. >> i began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency.